Evelyn Louise Keyes was an American film actress. A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes came out to Hollywood and was introduced to Cecil B. DeMille, who in her own words, “signed me to a personal contract without even making a testâ€. After a handful of B-movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed the role in Gone with the Wind, of Scarlett O’Hara’s sister, Suellen. She was later interviewed for the 1988 documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind.
Columbia Pictures signed her to a contract. In 1941, she played an ingenue in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. She spent most of the early 1940s playing leads in many of Columbia’s B dramas and mysteries. She appeared as the female lead opposite Larry Parks in Columbia’s blockbuster hit, The Jolson Story. She followed this up with an enjoyable minor screwball comedy, The Mating of Millie, with Glenn Ford. She was then in a 1949 role as Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike. Keyes’ last major film role was a small part as Tom Ewell’s vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which starred Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued to act.
Evelyn Keyes Biography / Wiki
| Name | Evelyn Keyes |
| Also Know | Evelyn Louise Keyes |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Port Arthur, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1916-11-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
| Deathday | 2008-07-04 |
Evelyn Keyes Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Sheila Bennet | 1950-10-06 | In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the polic… |
| A Thousand and One Nights | The Genie | 1945-07-20 | On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan’s daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it … |
| The Thrill of Brazil | Vicki Dean | 1946-09-06 | Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda…. |
| One Big Affair | Jean Harper | 1952-02-22 | Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school teac… |
| Renegades | Hannah Brockway | 1946-06-13 | The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw’s son…. |
| The Prowler | Susan Gilvray | 1951-05-25 | Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who st… |
| The Jolson Story | Julie Benson | 1946-10-10 | This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. … |
| Before I Hang | Martha Garth | 1940-09-17 | A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals’ blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a… |
| The Face Behind the Mask | Helen Williams | 1941-01-16 | In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he’s caught in a fire, his fac… |
| Hell’s Half Acre | Donna Williams | 1954-06-01 | A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband…. |
| 99 River Street | Linda James | 1953-08-21 | A former boxer –now taxi driver– gets mixed up with jewel thieves…. |
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Bette Logan | 1941-08-07 | Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes…because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe’s spirit prematurely from his body… |
| Iron Man | Rose Warren Mason | 1951-09-20 | In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke … |
| Johnny O’Clock | Nancy Hobson | 1947-01-07 | When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O’Clock, a suave partn… |
| Mr. Soft Touch | Jenny Jones | 1949-07-28 | When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WW2 hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club’s … |
| Dangerous Blondes | Jane Craig | 1943-09-23 | Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance wh… |
| Rough Shoot | Cecily Paine | 1953-05-15 | An American military officer (Joel McCrea) and his wife (Evelyn Keyes) move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only … |
| Top Of The World | Virgie Rayne | 1955-05-01 | A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska…. |
| The Mating of Millie | Millie McGonigle | 1948-03-08 | Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan… |
| Sons of the Legion | Linda Lee | 1938-09-18 | Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy’s father wrongfully… |
| There’s Something About a Soldier | Carol Harkness | 1943-11-30 | Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training…. |
| Strange Affair | Jacqueline “Jack” Harrison | 1944-10-05 | Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up f… |
| Smuggler’s Island | Vivian Craig | 1951-05-18 | An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold…. |
| It Happened in Paris | Patricia Moran | 1952-12-26 | Wealthy American Patricia comes to spend some time at her uncle’s place in Paris. While out on her own for the evening she meets pseudo-Russian princ… |
| Beyond the Sacramento | Lynn Perry | 1940-11-11 | Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly re… |
| Mrs. Mike | Kathy O’Fallon Flannigan | 1949-12-23 | This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O’Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with he… |
| Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist | Herself | 1987-01-01 | This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties an… |
| Nine Girls | Mary O’Ryan | 1944-02-17 | One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on… |
| The Seven Year Itch | Helen Sherman | 1955-06-03 | With his family away for their annual summer holiday, Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor’s life. The beautiful but ditz… |
| Ladies in Retirement | Lucy | 1941-09-09 | Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit … |
| Flight Lieutenant | Susie Thompson | 1942-07-09 | A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with…. |
| The Adventures of Martin Eden | Ruth Morley | 1942-02-26 | Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published…. |
| Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream | Herself | 1990-01-01 | … |
| Enchantment | Grizel Dane | 1948-12-25 | Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last da… |
| Glorious Technicolor | Self | 1998-12-07 | The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company’s work…. |
| The Desperadoes | Allison McLeod | 1943-05-25 | Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town’s crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and wh… |
| Discovering Treasure: The Story of ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ | Self | 2003-09-30 | An overview of the making of John Huston’s 1948 classic “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”… |
| John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self | 1989-01-01 | Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world…. |
| Sudden Money | Mary Patterson | 1939-03-31 | Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald “Doc” Finney win a $15… |
| A Return to Salem’s Lot | Mrs. Axel | 1987-05-01 | Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem’s Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the i… |
| The Lady in Question | Francois Morestan | 1940-08-07 | When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn’t convict, she has a bad influence on his son…. |
| Gone with the Wind | Suellen O’Hara | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| Wicked Stepmother | Witch Instructor | 1989-02-03 | A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family’s home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in … |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 2 | 1941-12-05 | Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund’s co… | |
| Slightly Honorable | Miss Vlissingen | 1939-12-22 | A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name…. |
| Union Pacific | Mrs. Calvin | 1939-05-05 | One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp… |
| Men with Wings | Nurse | 1938-07-16 | Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. … |
| Paris Honeymoon | Village Girl (uncredited) | 1939-01-27 | A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant… |
| Artists and Models Abroad | Girl (uncredited) | 1938-12-20 | Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the ‘Hotel de Navarre’ in furnishing accommodations… |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Paris Tart | 1956-10-17 | Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve… |
| The Buccaneer | Madeleine | 1938-02-04 | French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812…. |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Herself | 1988-10-01 | This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage…. |
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